Post pirating or affiliation?

I've just found out a post in a forum using my id, which I don't remember ever made and never joined. I do remember vaguely that I made a similar post in this forum. The threads are virtually identical, sans the eliminiation of posts made my another member of this forum (beenthere).

I see your other forum as a little dry . This forum is vibrate with discussion
and information on same or near same electronics subject.Theory,more give
and take is there is to subject matter and more posting from more members and
opinion. So come over to stand your ground and make your case. Thanks for your opinion.

You might want to contact the administration of that board to let them know if you feel it's a problem. Are there more than that one post under your user ID?

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I haven't checked, and I don't think I'm going to. It's not a big deal. A screen id is just that, an id. I do not attach that much importance to it. There are certainly other people using the same id as mine out there.

I guess there are many people out there that will do anything to increase the rating of their site, anyway they can. Including copying the content of other forums. One thing I don't understand is why copy the user id? Is user id being considered in SEO? And not just content?

I see your other forum as a little dry . This forum is vibrate with discussion
and information on same or near same electronics subject.Theory,more give
and take is there is to subject matter and more posting from more members and
opinion. So come over to stand your ground and make your case. Thanks for your opinion.

I see that quite a few so called 'forums' copy and paste commentary into thier sites. I'm sure the reason being to add an impression of popularity, if not only for search engines.

I't's plagerism at best, and furiating when someone is trying to do useful research when you really don't know where the original poster of a thread is actually active. Of course these sites that practice this, typically have low visitation.

There are software packages out there that;
1. register lots of accts on lots of forums
2. troll the internet for anything containing keywords (like nightrider LED)
3. create fake posts where they copy text from source A to forum B

If they also have my password or my email address from AAC, then that would be a security breach, wouldn't it?

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I can assure you no-one has access to your details and we would never give them out to anyone. My assumption is that this is possibly some sort of replication of the posts here at AAC, done for whatever reason.

I can assure you no-one has access to your details and we would never give them out to anyone. My assumption is that this is possibly some sort of replication of the posts here at AAC, done for whatever reason.

One thing I did notice from browsing that forum was that posts made by admin or mods were strangely missing (that is a lot of posts, btw!). So some of the threads made little sense as large parts of the discussion were missing.